Karigar was found guilty of plotting to bribe senior Air India officials and a cabinet minister with payouts and stock options, and for conspiring with employees or associates of Ottawa-based security company CryptoMetrics, to win a multimillion-dollar, facial-recognition software contract for Air India.
In August 2013, following a lengthy trial, Karigar was convicted on a single count indictment of offering to bribe a foreign public official contrary to section 3 of the CFPOA. Karigar was found to have played a leading role in a conspiracy to bribe officials of Air India, a corporation owned and controlled by the Government of India, and the Indian Minister of Civil Aviation, for the purpose of securing a multi-million dollar Air India contract for a biometric security system on behalf of Ottawa-based Cryptometrics Canada Limited.
